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Abstract
The issue of domestic violence is strikingly prevalent in today’s society, yet the magnitude at
which the concern is addressed does not appear to correlate to its pervasive nature. Although
both men and women can be victims of domestic violence, women typically constitute the bulk
of the population affected. The impact that it has on women who are victims of this abuse is
insurmountable, and can have significant lasting traumatic effects that permeate through all areas
of their life. However, when dealing with trauma, the needs of a population are exceedingly
complex and typically call for the collaboration of multiple resources throughout a community to
band together for a true improvement in quality of life for these victims. With alliance and
networking of mental health resources in a community being a widespread work in progress, this
study was designed to formulate a way to meet the complex need of safety and trauma recovery,
ultimately improving quality of life in all necessary areas for these victims. A concept for a
community program/coalition was developed to meet these needs, and a blueprint was described
for an advocacy program to demonstrate the benefit a strong community network would have on
helping women who are victims of domestic violence in communities to truly thrive. Finally,
challenges and barriers to this undertaking are presented and implications are discussed.
Keywords: community psychology, community counseling, abuse victims, trauma
victims, abused women, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, networking
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Case Study: Women Victims of Domestic Violence
Prompt: You are a mental health professional in your local community and have been for
the last five years. In that time, you have noted that there are unmet needs for your clients. These
are not needs that your agency can address but could be addressed by joining of resources across
the community. You believe that if those needs were addressed, your client population would not
only benefit from the practical implementation of the resource, but would likely thrive and be
able to have a more fully functioning life experience. This assignment focuses on the
conceptualization of the “case” which is greater than one client; rather, the case is the need in the
community which can support a client population. You can use a population identified in the Sue
et al. text or the June and Black text. You can also consider other populations, examples of which
include homeless, veterans, teenage parents, autistic children, addiction, incarcerated mothers,
and multiple others.
Description of the Population
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Identification of Need
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Intervention Strategies
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Resiliency Factors
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Program or Coalition
Content
Advocacy Program
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1. In-text citation: Barocas et al. (2016)
Parenthetical citation: (Barocas et al., 2016)
2. In-text citation: Cattaneo and Goodman (2015)
Parenthetical citation: (Cattaneo & Goodman, 2015)
3. In-text citation: Evans and Feder (2015)
Parenthetical citation: (Evans & Feder, 2015)
4. In-text citation: Goodman et al. (2016)
Parenthetical citation: (Goodman et al., 2016)
5. In-text citation: Halliwell et al. (2019)
Parenthetical citation: (Halliwell et al., 2019)
6. In-text citation: Hughes et al. (2015)
Parenthetical citation: (Hughes et al., 2015)
7. In-text citation: Johnson and Stylianou (2022)
Parenthetical citation: (Johnson & Stylianou, 2022)
8. In-text citation: June et al. (2002)
Parenthetical citation: (June et al., 2002)
9. In-text citation: Spencer et al. (2019)
Parenthetical citation: (Spencer et al., 2019)
10. In-text citation: Sullivan (2018)
Parenthetical citation: (Sullivan, 2018)
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